I believe in the disease model DRG. I have tweaked it slightly and aren't strictly completely clean. But I made it work for me, for the things most pertinent. I picked up much of it in both NA and AA

I had the same outlook. During rehab, I was given the original "Blue Book" and began reading. As I wasn't addicted to alcohol, a lot of it was just stupid to me... But the more and more I would read and the more mandatory meetings I had to attend, the more things started to click. The book wasn't a step by step instruction manual but rather a helpful guide as to how to deal with the emotional aspects of the addiction (and yes, being addicted to drugs has a massive effect on your emotions). I think the book gave me more than the program did, but the program helped me to see the people I did not want to become; those who dropped their addictions to drugs for the addiction of repetition with the weekly meeting. There were people who literally would go through withdrawals from missing a meeting the way others would go through withdrawals from not shooting up. Substitution was not the answer to help me repair the parts of me that were defective.